Handbook
Media and Information Literacy Intelligence
Help people formulate information needs, search, evaluate sources, verify claims and context, understand incentives, recognize synthetic media, attribute correctly, and share responsibly.
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Definition
Help people formulate information needs, search, evaluate sources, verify claims and context, understand incentives, recognize synthetic media, attribute correctly, and share responsibly.
Coverage role
Reliable information is a prerequisite for health, finance, civic, consumer, work, and relationship decisions.
Scope
Included
- search strategy
- source evaluation
- provenance
- claim verification
- bias and incentive analysis
- context reconstruction
- synthetic media awareness
- copyright and attribution
- responsible sharing
Excluded and non-goals
- censorship by viewpoint
- fabricated citations
- political persuasion targeting
- doxxing
- copyright infringement
- certainty beyond evidence
Boundary rules
- Route to life.media-information-literacy when the requested outcome requires one or more declared capabilities and the output can be represented by its canonical artifacts.
- Route to an adjacent or specialist intelligence when domain-specific rules, tools, or professional authority dominate the problem.
- Use general.reasoning to coordinate multi-pack conflicts, hard constraints, uncertainty, and decision status.
- Return ask, defer, or escalate when required context, source authority, consent, or accountable ownership is missing.
Capability semantics
| Capability ID | Name | Semantic intent |
|---|---|---|
capability.life.media-information-literacy.formulate_information_need |
Formulate Information Need | Define the decision claim scope date geography and evidence needed. |
capability.life.media-information-literacy.search_and_triangulate |
Search And Triangulate | Use diverse authoritative and independent sources and record unsuccessful searches. |
capability.life.media-information-literacy.evaluate_source |
Evaluate Source | Assess authority proximity evidence methods incentives corrections and date. |
capability.life.media-information-literacy.map_claim_evidence |
Map Claim Evidence | Link each material claim to supporting refuting conflicting or missing evidence. |
capability.life.media-information-literacy.verify_context |
Verify Context | Check original source date location edit chain definitions and comparison frame. |
capability.life.media-information-literacy.assess_synthetic_manipulation |
Assess Synthetic Manipulation | Identify signs and verification methods for altered generated or decontextualized media without overclaiming. |
capability.life.media-information-literacy.attribute_and_share |
Attribute And Share | Produce accurate citations copyright-aware summaries uncertainty labels and a responsible-sharing decision. |
Canonical artifact concepts
| Artifact type | Structural category | Semantic purpose |
|---|---|---|
artifact.life.media-information-literacy.research_brief |
brief | Research Brief for Media and Information Literacy Intelligence: A bounded specification of purpose, stakeholders, requirements, constraints, assumptions, and success criteria. It supports the pack purpose of help people formulate information needs, search, evaluate sources, verify claims and context, understand incentives, recognize synthetic media, attribute correctly, and share responsibly. |
artifact.life.media-information-literacy.search_log |
ledger | Search Log for Media and Information Literacy Intelligence: A controlled collection of uniquely identified entries with ownership, provenance, status, and review state. It supports the pack purpose of help people formulate information needs, search, evaluate sources, verify claims and context, understand incentives, recognize synthetic media, attribute correctly, and share responsibly. |
artifact.life.media-information-literacy.source_ledger |
ledger | Source Ledger for Media and Information Literacy Intelligence: A controlled collection of uniquely identified entries with ownership, provenance, status, and review state. It supports the pack purpose of help people formulate information needs, search, evaluate sources, verify claims and context, understand incentives, recognize synthetic media, attribute correctly, and share responsibly. |
artifact.life.media-information-literacy.claim_evidence_map |
model | Claim Evidence Map for Media and Information Literacy Intelligence: A purpose-bounded representation of entities, relationships, assumptions, boundaries, and evidence of adequacy. It supports the pack purpose of help people formulate information needs, search, evaluate sources, verify claims and context, understand incentives, recognize synthetic media, attribute correctly, and share responsibly. |
artifact.life.media-information-literacy.context_verification_report |
context_profile | Context Verification Report for Media and Information Literacy Intelligence: A bounded context profile that separates observations, preferences, constraints, uncertainty, time scope, and next questions. It supports the pack purpose of help people formulate information needs, search, evaluate sources, verify claims and context, understand incentives, recognize synthetic media, attribute correctly, and share responsibly. |
artifact.life.media-information-literacy.media_authenticity_assessment |
analysis | Media Authenticity Assessment for Media and Information Literacy Intelligence: An evidence-linked assessment that states criteria, findings, uncertainty, limitations, status, and action. It supports the pack purpose of help people formulate information needs, search, evaluate sources, verify claims and context, understand incentives, recognize synthetic media, attribute correctly, and share responsibly. |
artifact.life.media-information-literacy.publication_checklist |
checklist | Publication Checklist for Media and Information Literacy Intelligence: An applicability-aware control list that records item status, evidence, gaps, ownership, remediation, and review. It supports the pack purpose of help people formulate information needs, search, evaluate sources, verify claims and context, understand incentives, recognize synthetic media, attribute correctly, and share responsibly. |
Method families and limits
| Method ID | Method | Use when | Avoid when |
|---|---|---|---|
method.life.media-information-literacy.lateral_reading |
lateral reading | Use when the reliability of a conclusion depends on locating original evidence, comparing independent sources, preserving scope, and identifying conflicts. | Avoid equating repetition with independence, citing summaries for claims available in primary sources, or merging conflicting evidence into a single unsupported score. |
method.life.media-information-literacy.primary_source_tracing |
primary-source tracing | Use when the reliability of a conclusion depends on locating original evidence, comparing independent sources, preserving scope, and identifying conflicts. | Avoid equating repetition with independence, citing summaries for claims available in primary sources, or merging conflicting evidence into a single unsupported score. |
method.life.media-information-literacy.evidence_grading |
evidence grading | Use when the reliability of a conclusion depends on locating original evidence, comparing independent sources, preserving scope, and identifying conflicts. | Avoid equating repetition with independence, citing summaries for claims available in primary sources, or merging conflicting evidence into a single unsupported score. |
method.life.media-information-literacy.claim_decomposition |
claim decomposition | Use when the reliability of a conclusion depends on locating original evidence, comparing independent sources, preserving scope, and identifying conflicts. | Avoid equating repetition with independence, citing summaries for claims available in primary sources, or merging conflicting evidence into a single unsupported score. |
method.life.media-information-literacy.provenance_chain |
provenance chain | Use when the reliability of a conclusion depends on locating original evidence, comparing independent sources, preserving scope, and identifying conflicts. | Avoid equating repetition with independence, citing summaries for claims available in primary sources, or merging conflicting evidence into a single unsupported score. |
method.life.media-information-literacy.uncertainty_labels |
uncertainty labels | Use before sharing information whose confidence, provenance, context, privacy, rights, or downstream interpretation matters. | Avoid publishing unsupported certainty, decontextualized media, unnecessary personal data, unlicensed content, or claims whose source scope has been lost. |
method.life.media-information-literacy.pre_publication_review |
pre-publication review | Use before sharing information whose confidence, provenance, context, privacy, rights, or downstream interpretation matters. | Avoid publishing unsupported certainty, decontextualized media, unnecessary personal data, unlicensed content, or claims whose source scope has been lost. |
Pack-specific invariants
The pack also inherits the core invariants in core/core_invariants.yaml.
| Invariant ID | Statement | Failure action |
|---|---|---|
invariant.life.media-information-literacy.01_citations_support_the_exact_claim |
Citations support the exact claim. | fail_or_repair |
invariant.life.media-information-literacy.02_original_context_and_date_are_preserved |
Original context and date are preserved. | fail_or_repair |
invariant.life.media-information-literacy.03_lack_of_verification_is_not_converted_into_falsehood_or_tr |
Lack of verification is not converted into falsehood or truth. | fail_or_repair |
invariant.life.media-information-literacy.04_copyright_privacy_and_safety_constraints_are_respected |
Copyright privacy and safety constraints are respected. | fail_or_repair |
Dependencies and relations
Operational general intelligences: general.question-framing, general.validation-verification
Foundation concepts: general.epistemic-evidence, general.semantic-representational, general.logical-constraint, general.tool-computational, general.metacognitive
Life intelligences: life.digital-citizenship-privacy-cybersecurity
Source roles
| Source ID | Claim roles | Runtime resolution required |
|---|---|---|
unesco.mil |
competence_framework, concept_definition, evaluation_dimension | True |
ec.digcomp |
competence_framework, concept_definition, evaluation_dimension | True |
local.authority |
jurisdiction_rule, runtime_fact, service_or_community_context | True |
Risk and authority boundary
Risk class: high
- Medical legal financial or emergency claims needing domain experts.
- Doxxing harassment election-procedure or public-safety misinformation.
- Media requiring forensic or legal authentication.
Accountable people retain consent, value, regulated, irreversible, and residual-risk decisions. This semantic page does not claim a deployed implementation.
Maturity
semantic: S3_reviewable_definition
contract: C3_testable_contract
implementation: I0_not_included
evidence: E2_source_roles_mapped
governance: G2_controls_and_review_defined
overlay: O2_paired_seed_complete
Paired overlay
Runtime maturity
- Capabilities: 7
- Technical floor→ceiling:
I1_runtime→I1_runtime - Autonomy floor→ceiling:
A0_assisted→A0_assisted - I1_runtime count: 7
- Evidence class:
contract: 7 - Full hierarchy: MATURITY-HIERARCHY.md
Evaluation suite status
- CI status:
pass - Suite:
evaluation_suites/media-information-literacy.yaml - Cases defined: 7
- Capabilities under test: 7